Topic of the Day : Stress
Recognizing Stress
- What is stress?
- What causes stress?
- How do you recognize stress in your life?
- Have you been under stress recently?
- How does stress affect you?
- Do you have a kind of red warning flag that indicates too much stress?
- When you are stressful, how do you feel physically?
- Do you feel tired during the day?
- Can you sleep well at night?
- Does your stomach hurt?
- How do you feel emotionally?
- Do you feel nervous or worried about stressful situations?
- Do you get angry easily?
Helping Others
- Have you ever helped someone who was feeling stressful?
- What did you do?
- Did you give them advice?
- Did you listen to them?
- Did you do most of the talking?
- Did you take some action to help them?
- Have you ever helped someone that you didn't know?
- What are characteristics of a good counselor?
- Is it necessary to have shared the same experience?
- Is it important to be an expert?
- Is it important to be patient?
Healthy Stress
- Do you think stress is ever good, useful, or necessary?
- Why or why not?
- Do you play games or sports that are sometimes stressful?
- When can stress be a good thing?
- If you are playing a sport and your team is losing, does it give you extra energy?
- Does stress make you feel more alive?
- Is your home life stressful?
- Are you busy at home?
- Can you relax at home?
- Do you enjoy having discussions about politics with other people who have different opinions?
- Do you like to argue about different ways to do things at work or at home?
Personal
- Have you felt stress recently?
- Did the stressful feeling last a long time or a short time?
- Had the cause of the stress happened to you before or was this a new situation?
- How often do you think you feel too much stress?
- Do you feel too busy sometimes?
- In what way does a too full schedule lead to stress?
- Do you like being busy?
- If you are very busy at work or at school, do you have ways to balance your life?
- If you have nothing to do, do you enjoy yourself or do you get bored?
- Does stress make it hard for you to think or act?
- How can you judge what is the right amount of stress for you?
- Is your stress caused by relationships with other people?
- At work? At school?
- At home?
- With best friends?
- With partners?
- Can you think of some examples?
- Does stress come when you worry about your life?
- Do you keep your worries a secret from other people?
- Do you have anyone you can talk to when you are worried?
- When did we start talking about stress as a psychological condition?
- What do you do when you have stress?